Arnold Komisar:Author-ccebook-Valuable English Books

Mandibular Reconstruction

Author: Arnold Komisar
Publisher: Thieme
Keywords: reconstruction, mandibular
Number of Pages: 147
Published: 1997-01-15
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0865776148
ISBN-13: 9780865776142

Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City. Compilation of both established and recently developed techniques for mandibular reconstruction. For otolaryngologists and surgeons. Halftone illustrations. 19 contributors, 14 U.S. DNLM: Mandible - surgery.

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The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living

Author: Randy Komisar
Publisher: Harvard Business Pre
Keywords: making, living, life, creating, riddle, art, monk
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2001-09-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 1578516447
ISBN-13: 9781578516445

Prospective entrepreneurs may think they know everything there is to know about starting a business in Silicon Valley. They can draw up business plans, have meetings with venture capitalists, maybe even get funded and actually launch a start-up. However, in The Monk and the Riddle, Silicon Valley sage Randy Komisar reasons that’s only half the equation for success. And it may not be the important half. Komisar has worked with a number of companies--Apple, LucasArts Entertainment (the gaming division of George Lucas’s empire), and WebTV among them--and has come to a rather startling

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The Monk and the Riddle : The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur

Authors:Randy Komisar, Kent L. Lineback,
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Keywords: valley, entrepreneur, silicon, education, riddle, monk
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2000-03-24
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 1578511402
ISBN-13: 9781578511402

How one Silicon Valley insider has blazed a path of professional-and personal-success playing the game by his own rules. Silicon Valley is filled with garage-to-riches stories and hot young entrepreneurs with big ideas. Yet even in this place where the exceptional is common, Randy Komisar is a breed apart. Currently a "Virtual CEO" who provides "leadership on demand" for several renowned companies, Komisar was recently described by the Washington Post as a "combined professional mentor, minister without portfolio, in-your-face investor, trouble-shooter and door opener." But even more intere

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Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model

Authors:John Mullins, Randy Komisar,
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Keywords: model, business, breaking, plan, getting
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2009-09-01
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 1422126692
ISBN-13: 9781422126691

You have a new venture in mind. And you’ve crafted a business plan so detailed it’s a work of art. Don’t get too attached to it.As John Mullins and Randy Komisar explain in Getting to Plan B, new businesses are fraught with uncertainty. To succeed, you must change the plan in real time as the inevitable challenges arise. In fact, studies show that entrepreneurs who stick slavishly to their Plan A stand a greater chance of failing-and that many successful businesses barely resemble their founders’ original idea.The authors provide a rigorous process for stress testing yo

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Pseudoperiodic Topology (American Mathematical Society Translations Series 2)

Authors:V. I. Arnold, Arnold Vladimir, Maxim Kontsevich, Anto
Publisher: Amer Mathematical Society
Keywords: translations, series, society, mathematical, topology, american, pseudoperiodic
Number of Pages: 178
Published: 2000-01
List price: $93.00
ISBN-10: 082182094X
ISBN-13: 9780821820940

This volume offers an account of the present state of the art in pseudoperiodic topology---a young branch of mathematics, born at the boundary between the ergodic theory of dynamical systems, topology, and number theory. Related topics include the theory of algorithms, convex integer polyhedra, Morse inequalities, real algebraic geometry, statistical physics, and algebraic number theory. The book contains many new results. Most of the articles contain brief surveys on the topics, making the volume accessible to a broad audience. From the Preface by V.I. Arnold: "The authors